CALN- Too bad you can’t use Coatesville on your fantasy football team.

Coatesville rolled up 513 yards of offense and scored five touchdowns of 50 yards or more to fuel the Red Raiders’ impressive 63-20 blowout of Suburban One League power Neshaminy in the District 1 Class AAAA semifinals Friday at Red Raider Stadium.

Coatesville (11-2) advances to its first District 1 championship game since the early 1990s. They last won a district title in 1992. Coatesville will await the winner of today’s Pennridge-Spring-Ford game.

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Individually, the Red Raiders put up tremendous numbers. Chris Jones (5-163) and Dre Boggs (2-104) cracked the 100-yard receiving mark. Jones also returned a punt for a touchdown. Daquan Worley rushed for 182 yards and three TDs, and leading the pack, was quarterback Emmett Hunt, who was 12 of 14 for 313 yards and four scores.

“We just try to execute the plays the coaches give us, every single one we try to execute to the best of our ability,” Jones said. “We wanted to jump on them early and make them play catch-up because Suburban One teams are not built to do that.

“Our confidence is very high right now, but we want to stay humble and get better each week and practice hard every week.”

Worley staked Coatesville to an early 7-0 lead when he bolted 86 yards right through the middle of the Neshaminy defense on the second offensive play of the game.

Coatesville dazzled the dazed Redskin defenders as Jones, Worley and Dre Boggs seemed to to do whatever they wanted. When the first half was over, the Red Raiders built a 35-14 advantage on just six offensive plays. So quick were the strikes that nobody on the defense could recover.

“We wanted to jump on them early and take their will away,” Hunt said. “The first series, teams always are up, but after they see our speed, they start to sag and then they don’t look you in the eye anymore and you know right there that they are done.”

Neshaminy was not done however as the offense took life to start the second half. Nate Hall, who rushed for 220 yards, busted out for an 82-yard touchdown run to make it a 35-21 game with one minute gone in the third.

After a punt, Neshanminy quarterback Hugh Hart rolled around the right side for a 37-yard gain to the Coatesville four-yard line. Two plays later, Hall took a pitch and rolled in to close the gap to 35-28 midway through the third.

But the Coatesville offense took over the game again. On the third play of the drive, Hunt threw a perfect 60-yard spiral to a streaking Jones for a 42-28 lead and the Redskins were back on their heels again.

“We did not prepare well enouh for their speed and after we got close they scored that touchdown,” Neshaminy head coach Mark Schmidt said. “They score in a hurry, but I was proud of our kids because they did not quit.”

The Coatesville defense, which had trouble containg Hall, sacked Hart four times and got big games from Steven Pawling, Tyler Burke and Mike Boykin, as they shut down the Redskins the rest of the way.

Coatesville’s amazing offense poured it on from there as Worley broke up the middle for a one-yard TD and then iced the game with a 26-yard jaunt.

Vinnie Williams put the exclamation point on the night, scoring on an 45-yard interception return in the game’s final two minutes as the ‘Ville sealed a spot in next week’s district final.

“I can’t even describe how it feels to go to the finals,” Hunt said. “Nobody thought we could do it. Everybody said it was going to be Downingtown East that was going to go there and now it is us. It is a great feeling.”

Coatesville head coach Matt Ortega, who has done a masterful job bringing this team along, said his kids are very focused right now.

“The kids are playing unbelievable well right now,” Ortega said. “The offense is really clicking and our special teams are doing the job too. They have worked hard and they will continue to work hard.”